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CTOnews.com, September 11 (Xinhua) Timo Tijhof, chief engineer of the Wikimedia Foundation, published a few days ago, revealing the usage data of PHP language and emphasizing the role of PHP language on the Internet. CTOnews.com collates the relevant content as follows:

PHP is still the preferred programming language. Timo Tijhof is an excerpt from the Analysis of programming languages used on the Top 10 million websites around the World (as of 2023.8) released by W3 Techs, where:

PHP accounts for 77.2%

ASP accounts for 6.9%

Ruby accounts for 5.4%

▲ source timotijhof.net content management framework based on PHP the vast majority of public websites are built using PHP-based CMS, and 8 of the top 12 CMS software are written in PHP, which is also based on the above W3 Techs analysis results, each percentage point represents 100,000 of the top 10 million websites.

[PHP] WordPress ecology (63%)

[Ruby] Shopify

Wix

Squarespace

[PHP] Joomla ecology (3%)

[PHP] Drupal ecology (2%)

[PHP] Adobe Magento (2)

[PHP] PrestaShop (1)

[Python] Google Blogger

[PHP] Bitrix (1)

[PHP] OpenCart (1)

[PHP] TYPO3 (1)

The application of ▲ source timotijhof.netPHP in e-commerce according to BuiltWith's report to online stores in August 2023, we can see that PHP still occupies a "dominant position" in the field of e-commerce:

Wordpress sites using WooCommerce plug-ins (24% global market share)

Adobe Magento (7% global market share)

OpenCart (2% global market share, 24% Russian market share)

PrestaShop (2% global market share, 14% French market share)

Shopware (1% global market share, 12% German market share)

▲ chart source timotijhof.netTimo Tijhof also quotes Ars Technica's chart data, saying that "PHP still maintains a huge lead."

Application of ▲ source timotijhof.netPHP in large-scale scenarios Keith Adams, chief architect of Slack, said that most of the server-side application logic of Slack is written in PHP. Compared to the advantages of PHP (reducing error costs through fault isolation; secure concurrency; and high throughput), its problems are negligible.

Timotijhof.netVimeo engineers at ▲ Picture Source said that Vimeo's continued success in PHP proves that PHP is a great tool for fast-growing companies in 2020.

▲ source timotijhof.netTimo Tijhof also concluded from the W3 Techs report that among the companies with a single business, the largest is WordPress, which drives Automattic's WordPress.com, with 20 billion PV per month (Alexa ranks 55th globally).

Further understanding, look at 0.1% of the market share of the entries, we can see that a large number of websites are supported by the PHP system, PHP is still the preferred framework for more than 100000 small websites.

# 23 CMS:Moodle

# 25 CMS:phpBB, such as Google Waze Community, ApacheFriends Forum, VideoLAN Forum

# 31 CMS:XenForo forums, such as ArsTechnica.com and MacRumors.com

# 33 CMS:Roundcube

# 45 CMS:MediaWiki

# 49 CMS:vBulletin Forum

# 53 CMS:IPS communities, such as MalwareBytes.com, BleepingComputer and Squarespace.com forums

MediaWiki drives Wikipedia and a large number of third-party encyclopedias, with 25 billion PV per month (No. 12 in Alexa), while MediaWiki also drives Fandom (No. 44 in 2 billion PV,Similarweb per month) and WikiHow (100 million visitors per month, with Alexa ranking 215).

In addition, a large number of Internet companies adopt PHP technology stacks, such as Facebook (No. 7 in Alexa), Etsy (No. 66 in Alexa), Vimeo (No. 165th in Alexa) and Slack (No. 362nd in Similarweb).

According to this, Timo Tijhof believes that PHP still has unique advantages, "it has a large productive community, active developers, easy to learn, easy to expand", so it still has an unshakeable position.

Referenc

An Internet of PHP

Usage Statistics and Market Share of Server-side Programming Languages for Websites, September 2023 (w3techs.com)

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